It requires wisdom to understand wisdom: the music is nothing if the audience is deaf.
-Walter Lippmann
Quotations
Music
Pop music often tells you everything is OK, while rock music tells you that it's not OK, but you can change it.
-Bono
"On the Move"
Music is everywhere. It’s in the air between us, waiting to be sung.
-David Levithan
"How They Met and Other Stories"
Any good music must be an innovation
-Les Baxter
Anything that is too stupid to be spoken is sung.
-Voltaire
Music is the moonlight in the gloomy night of life.
-Friedrich Richter
Music is forever; music should grow and mature with you, following you right on up until you die
-Paul Simon
Music is the mediator between the spiritual and the sensual life.
-Ludwig Van Beethoven "Ludwig van Beethoven"
Good music always defeats bad luck.
-Jack Vance
After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.
-Aldous Huxley
"Music At Night: And Other Essays"
